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                            Accelerating Deep Learning using Ivy
                        
                         
                        Guillermo Sanchez-Brizuela,
                        Ved Patwardhan,
                        Matthew Barrett,
                        Paul Anderson,
                        Mustafa Hani,                                                                                                
                        Daniel lenton,
                         
                        NeurIPS, 2023
                         
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                        Ivy enables the integration of code from one ML framework into another, speeding up development and also model inference. 
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                            End-to-End Egospheric Spatial Memory
                        
                         
                        Daniel lenton,
                        Stephen James,
                        Ronald Clark,
                        Andrew Davison
                         
                        International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021
                         
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                        ESM encodes the memory in an ego-sphere around the agent, enabling expressive 3D representations.
                           ESM can be trained end-to-end via either imitation or reinforcement learning,
                           and improves both training efficiency and final performance against other memory baselines on visuomotor control tasks. 
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                            Unsupervised Path Regression Networks
                        
                         
                        Michal Pandy,
                        Daniel lenton,
                        Ronald Clark
                         
                        International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021
                         
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                        We demonstrate that challenging shortest path problems can be solved via direct spline
                            regression from a neural network, trained in an unsupervised manner without requiring
                            ground truth optimal paths for training. To achieve this, we derive a geometry-dependent
                            optimal cost function whose minima guarantees collision-free solutions. 
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                            Waypoint Planning Networks
                        
                         
                        Alexandru-Iosif Toma,
                        Hussein Ali Jaafar,
                        Hao-Ya Hsueh,
                        Stephen James,
                        Daniel lenton,
                        Ronald Clark,
                        Sajad Saeedi,
                         
                        International Conference on Computer Vision and Robotics (CVR), 2021
                         
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                        Waypoint Planning Networks, or WPN, is a hybrid motion planning algorithm based on LSTMs with
                            a local kernel, a classic algorithm such as A*, and a global kernel using a learned
                            algorithm.  WPN produces a more computationally efficient and robust solution than other
                            learned approaches. 
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                            MoreFusion: Multi-object Reasoning for 6D Pose Estimation from Volumetric
                                Fusion
                            
                        
                         
                        Kentaro Wada,
                        Edgar Sucar,
                        Stephen James,
                        Daniel lenton,
                        Andrew Davison
                         
                        Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
                         
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                        MoreFusion makes 3D object pose proposals from single RGB-D views,
                            accumulates pose estimates and non-parametric occupancy information from multiple views as
                            the camera moves,
                            and performs joint optimization to estimate consistent, non-intersecting poses for multiple
                            objects in contact. 
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